Caitlin Moran
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Oh this is a good observation. And didn’t she manage the BTL section of the spectator?
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 8h agoJust thinking how Johnson spoke like a newspaper column — colourful, bantering bullshit — whereas Badenoch speaks like the worst kind of comment section: querulous, chippy, pedantic (I'm just talking tone here, not content)
You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.
America has never been more America. Cheerleaders recreate 9/11
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Nigel Farage Exposed: 18 years of infamy as leader of the UK Independence Party, the Brexit Party and Reform UK.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.
Good for Times Radio: got a former Navy commanding officer of a warship on right now (1745) saying the plan (sic) is as full of holes as a leaky dinghy.
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 2d agoSorry but unless you, as a media outlet, have managed to get someone from the Navy (probably a former sailor because those currently serving maybe disbarred from commenting) to explain that this is extremely unlikely to happen for legal reasons, then, arguably, you haven't really done your job.
This war is now a Teams meeting.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
This is a fabulous thread on AI, by the man who observed and then coined the phrase "enshittification."
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d agoThe greatest magic trick of them all is *lying*. The reason you can't figure out that coin vanish even after the conjurer performs it three times in a row is that they *didn't* do the same trick three times in a row! 1/
Stop talking about Nigel Farage and start talking about how compere, performer and drag king Mojo Jones has a new act called C*nty Binface 🗑️💖
hoo boy is this an answer which raises more questions
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d ago"Questions about [my] money could go on for years," says Nigel Farage, when asked about the secret deal he struck with the convicted fraudster George Cottrell before agreeing to return as leader of Reform UK.
Alex Jones, who has not paid a single cent to the Sandy Hook families despite owing them $1.4 billion, has been in a $3,000 per night suite in Hawaii for the last few weeks illegally using the InfoWars accounts to boost his traffic. Today he said there's going to be a national draft in three weeks.
I'd love to have a crack at being Education Secretary: www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...
What I’d do as education secretary to rejig schools for the real world
Since 2000, 18 ministers — and the new Labour leader — have tried to change things. Just let me do it
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Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
I went to the same school as Bill Oddie (KES in Birmingham) and there were legends that he'd once arrived at school on horseback and also had put up diversion signs which meant all the traffic along the main Bristol Road had to pass through the school grounds but I don't know if either is true.
It makes perfect sense that Musk would be radicalized by the same classic, stupid funnel that works on dim friendless 14 year olds everywhere
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
I will just say that the last time we had a figure like Elon Musk in our politics — Henry Ford — he was defanged through a combination of (a) rejection at the ballot box, and perhaps more importantly, (b) absolutely crushing consumer boycotts
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
For those of you who are still over there because of "the reach" or "the discourse" or whatever.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last wk.Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
She's been onto Nigel Farage and "Posh George" for years - until she was sued. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's brilliant long-read here, on her decades of following the story everyone's writing about now. She's a HERO: www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Nigel Farage's approval ratings have now sunk even lower than Keir Starmer's before he resigned, yet we're still being encouraged to believe he has some kind of magic connection with the British public
Hi, vernacular architectural historian here! So what’s happened here is basically yeah that’s a gate to hell
Dave Gilbert@wadjeteyegames.com · 2w agoFound this gate in York. It had a standard lock, plus a padlock and a chain holding it shut. It was very very securely closed. The only thing on the other side is a blank wall. The only conclusion I can make is that this is a magic portal to hell.
I would like to buy these, thank you very much. Bye.
Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 2w agoI know it's not the biggest news of the day, but I just spotted this... One of Keir Starmer's last acts in Govt is this: Laying legislation that will legalise 'plug-in solar' (aka balcony solar) panels in Britain It means plug-in solar panels do not (legally) have to be wired in by an electrician.
I think that's the point of Bake Off?
Dr Francis Young@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2w agoDoes anyone know of any Cold War-era efforts to establish magical or psychic defences in Britain against nuclear attack, in the same way as magical groups in WW2 worked on occult protection against Nazi invasion?
Andy Burnham - I wish you the absolute best of British luck. I hope you have a plan, I hope you know how to make it work, I hope people help you, & I hope it makes this country feel, well, hopeful again. We MUST have passed Peak Despair now. The future SHOULD feel exciting, and different. God speed
Expected to see Andy Burnham turn up at Buckingham Palace in a ten-year-old Ford Galaxy, giving two teenage kids a lift, and also drop off a Vaxx Wet-and-Clean hoover for a mate who's doing their stairs.
